Modern warfare

On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape.

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.

We didn't mean to change the past.

Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad.

World War Two was the greatest conflict in human history.

Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news.

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan.

On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news.

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.

At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments.

1939.

We didn't mean to change the past.

On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans.

'My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "e;our greatest orator"e;, "e;He's no speaker, is he?

Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad.

Throughout the course of the Second World War, many millions of animals were enlisted to serve.

'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John KeeganLife and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with whom the author, then nineteen, served in the last great land campaign of World War II, when the 17th Black Cat Division captured a vital strongpoint deep in Japanese territory, held it against counter-attack and spearheaded the final assault in which the Japanese armies were, to quote General Slim, "e;torn apart"e;.

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En el apogeo del esfuerzo bélico estadounidense, la aviación norteamericana encargó a John Steinbeck que escribiera Bombs Away, un informe esencial en tiempo de guerra y un relato verídico de sus experiencias con las tripulaciones de bombarderos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

'If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable.

The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (stork) was a German liaison aircraft built before and during World War II, and even post war in France.

A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan.

This book brings to light women's experiences in the Holocaust.

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5.

On the same day as the Pearl Harbor attack, forces of the Japanese Empire attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong without warning.

Alarmstart (scramble) charts the experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, diaries and flying log books, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published.

Afghanistan, Summer 2006.

For anyone who is interested in the air war 1941-45, the information provided here is of inestimable value.

Himmler, Schafer, Rahn, Wirth, Kiss: La apasionante aventura de las expediciones arqueológicas de los cazatesoros nazis.

This history of the US's British aircraft acquisition "e;examin[es] the role [the USSAF] played in reconnaissance, special operations, and night fighting.

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.

Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role.

After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk.

Jack Bewes' story of war is seen through the eyes of the mates who flew Lancasters together from England to Germany and France and saw their best friends killed.

'Well judged and well resourced .

Profoundly moved by the stories of wartime casualties as a child, Dilip Sarkar has since spent a lifetime reconstructing the lives of many of the fallen and is passionate about recording and sharing this very personal hidden history.

'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?

At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941.

Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction.

Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.

Juan Pujol, a young Spanish antifascist, became agent GARBO, a master of deception and intrigue.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ENTITLED, 'THE MOST DEVASTATING ROYAL BIOGRAPHY EVER WRITTEN', DAILY MAIL'Richly entertaining.